The Shadow


…of things to come

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Through the mirrors of time
I see images of you
from long ago
now fading imperceptibly
into one another

there are brief moments of light
but it is just the beginning
and the shadow
of things to come

everything I touch
is now so far away
yet closer than that
in this unnerving silence

the joy of love
and pain of loss
are blended in painful
perfection

everything renders wrong
no gilded filigree
just the dark tendrils
of all that we lost
winding out
into the endless night
© Ann Bagnall

3 thoughts on “The Shadow

  1. I enjoy your poetry, so I hope you don’t mind a suggestion. After I write a poem, I go back and cut all the words I don’t need. For example,
    “Through mirrors of time
    I see images of you
    from long ago
    fading imperceptibly
    into one another.”

    It’s just a thought.

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    1. I think my response to your last comment applies here too? Maybe you have not read it? In any case, I think all poets have their own way of crafting their work in ways that look and sound and feel the way they want them to. It’s not that I never write minimalist poetry, I enjoy Haiku for example, but my freestyle poetry is just that (wild and free!). This is what makes the poetry community so diverse and full of life for me!

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